It is coming together.
I admit it was a hot mess for a while, but I have done some more painting on one side.
And then I did some outlining.
And when I do this to all four sides, and then add some painted details and highlights, it will be a cool walk-around piece of art.
Because you see a stupid rock…
And you remember that rotary engraving/carving tool you got for Christmas…
And you think, yeah, I know, I have a million other art projects I am working on…
But it would be fun to just free-hand some art on a few rocks, you tell yourself…
Well, maybe just a few, you concede begrudgingly…
And the next thing you know, you are looking for rocks wherever you go…
And the ideas get weirder and weirder…
And then you start painting them, which you find out makes them look worse than just carving them, but you try to explain that if you just carve them, they are only really visible until you blow the rock dust out of the carving…
And besides, you think they are sort of cute, you know, to just place out in the garden…
But you figure, well, I could try carving some really deep, or just put paint in the carving lines…
So you start looking for more rocks wherever you go…
My little cousin came over for a visit. Here I am, reading her the book I wrote and illustrated: I Like Monkeys. Why does my neck look so fat?
I love that kid!
A sunset.
A moon.
One of my dogs being weird.
And some guy just hanging around at the beach.
Ha! You can barely see it because it is so natural looking!
I still have a ways to go.
But the colors do help.
I still think it is a pretty good way to recycle an old post.
I don’t know if the photos give a good view of the layers I carved into it, but when the painting is done, it should be cool.
It is all in the details.
It started off harmlessly enough. For Christmas, I asked for this cool little engraver pen I kept seeing ads for, and some paint pens. I was going to use them on my wood carving stuff that I already do.
And then I found this nice, big, smooth river rock. And the crack squirrels in my head said: “I wonder if that engraver would work on rocks?”
And they did. And the squirrels wondered if the paint pens would also work. And they also did.
And the next thing I know, I am looking for rocks everywhere I go.
And I am free-handing designs on rocks.
And so it goes, on and on, and now I haven’t even used the engraver or the pens on my wood carvings yet.
So whatever man…
Stupid crack squirrels.
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